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How to install an M.2 SSD in a PC: A SATA SSD drive is not your only option
The best thing about installing an M.2 SSD is that it doesn’t demand a lot of space inside the PC case or requires any cables for connection. These SSD modules are small enough to be installed directly on the motherboard itself, and it only takes a few minutes to secure one of them in place. In fact, you can install an M.2 SSD very easily even on PCs that are already assembled. Installing an M.2 SSD is usually quite simple, even in a PC that’s already been assembled.
Don’t just default to buying an SSD drive that connects with a SATA cable. It is worth considering your options. But be aware that you may have to choose between using either some SATA connectors or a M.2 SSD connector. I’ve seen on one of my boards it mentioned that if I used one of the M.2 SSD connectors, then I’d forfeit, I think, two SATA connectors.
See https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-install-m2-ssd/
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Best SSDs for Network Attached Storage (NAS) in 2023: Prices are Down and Capacities are Up
Hard drives have typically been the go-to storage medium for loading up a NAS with data, but flash storage in the form of SSDs have grown in popularity as NAS owners look for quieter and faster drives (and lower power consumption). The best SSDs for NAS have dropped in price in recent years, allowing for a substantially better price-per-GB.
I last bought 2.5″ notebook hard drives for my NAS mainly because they could be powered directly off their USB Cables (compared to the previous larger hard drives I had which required separate power), but I can see next time around I’m pretty sure I’ll be going with SSD drives.
See https://www.androidpolice.com/best-ssds-for-nas/
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#SocialSecurityDisability #SocialSecurityDisabilityProcess #SSD #CrossvilleAttorney
Flash APU 1D4 / Coreboot
Heute hab' ich Blut und Wasser geschwitzt - umso süßer ist der Erfolg!
Nach einem Hardwareschaden auf der #SSD meiner #APU1D4 hatte ich neue SSDs beschafft: 'msata 16g' - 4 Stück, weil ich auch mehrere dieser Boards besitze.
Vom Hersteller verbaut und spezifiziert war 'msata 16d', aber die waren nicht mehr zu bekommen.
Naja, war ja klar - keine davon wurde von der #Hardware erkannt, egal ob unter #GNU/Linux oder #FreeBSD.
Nach viel Recherche und wochenlangem Zaudern war ich heute mutig/verzweifelt genug, das #Coreboot #BIOS zu flashen. Vielen Dank überigens an #VoyageLinux für die Starthilfe.
Natürlich habe ich mir ins Höschen gemacht, dass ich Depp das Board kaputt flashe, besonders wegen einer Meldung zu angeblich falschen Chip. Aber ein beherztes '--force' brachte den Erfolg. Zuerst das Flashen selber und dann nach dem Neustart, dass die Disk nun erkannt wird. 🚀
Nun kann ich die Hardware weiter nutzen und der Weg ist frei zu einer stressfreihen Migration meiner #Firewall zwischen den Feiertagen.
#PC-Engines #pfSense #flashrom
Mit ist doch tatsächlich eine #Corsair #NVME SSD gestorben, jetzt habe ich mal wieder Samsung EVO 970 und schaue mal wie die läuft, die Corsair hatte bessere Specs, aber wenn ich ehrlich bin brauche ich die gar nicht, deswegen jetzt 40€ weniger und #Samsung.
Glücklicherweise hatte ich die bei Amazon gekauft, so konnte ich die jetzt einfach zurückschicken und muss die nicht über Corsair tauschen lassen. So hab ich innerhalb eines Tages eine neue #SSD.
To fstrim, or not to fstrim?
It's been long advised when running Linux on SSDs that you should regularly run /sbin/fstrim to deallocate deleted blocks on the SSDs, to improve wear life and performance. However, if you've tried that lately, you've probably seen the following error message:
fstrim: /: discard not supported
And researching this will lead you down a rabbithole of confusing stale information as to where and when and in what combinations of software it is supported, and dubious workarounds like breaking an array, running fstrim on the raw devices, then reassembling the array.
If you put all the pieces together, what you'll eventually find is that discard SHOULD be supported on all CURRENT versions of MDRAID, LVM, LUKS, whatever you're using, and passed through to the underlying device.
But this is a red herring. Because the simple fact is, unless you're using some cheap bottom-of-the-bargain-bin SSD, you don't need to worry about any of this any more, thanks to something called active garbage collection. It is supported by virtually all modern SSDs, as part of wear leveling functionality, and what it fundamentally means is that when idle the device does its own fstrim — or something equivalent — internally.
So the short answer to "How can I make fstrim work without this error?" is, "Don't." The drive knows what it's doing and already has the issue well in hand. Just get out of its way and leave it to it.
(However, for performance reasons, you SHOULD still set your kernel IO scheduling algorithm to NOOP (none) by appending elevator=noop to the kernel command line in your grub configuration.)
